Language, power, and ideology : studies in political discourse / edited by Ruth Wodak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wodak, Ruth, 1950-

Series:

Critical theory ; v. 7.

Critical theory ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xx, 288 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader contains papers on a variety of topics, all related to each other through explicit discussions on the notion of ideology from an interdisciplinary approach with illustrative analyses of texts from the media, newspapers, schoolbooks, pamphlets, talkshows, speeches concerning language policy in Nazi-Germany, in Italofascism, and also policies prevalent nowadays. Among the interesting subjects studied are the jargon of the student movement of 1968, speeches of politicians, racist and sexist discourse, and the language of the green movement. Because of the enormous influence of the media nowadays, the explicit analysis of the mechanisms of "manipulation", "suggestion", and "persuasion" inherent in language or about language behaviour and strategies of discourse are of social relevance and of interest to all scholars of social sciences, to readers in all educational institutions, to analysts of political discourse, and to critical readers at large.

Contents:

LANGUAGE, POWER AND IDEOLOGY STUDIES IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Noteson contributors

Introduction

1. Language and power

2. Critical linguistics

3. Language, power and ideology

NOTES

REFERENCES

Part I. Language and totalitarism

Structures of consensus-making and intervention: the concept of Nazi language policy in occupied Holland("Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden" 1940-1945)

1. Introduction

2. The situation of occupation

3. Illustrative analysis

4. Reading between the lines

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

APPENDIX

Language policy during the fascist period: the case of language education

1. Theoretical and methodological framework

2. LP in schools

3. Did an LP exist during fascism?

The political language of Futurism and its relationship to Italian Fascism

1. Textual analysis as a contribution to historical research

2. Textual analysis and criticism of ideology

3. Futurism in its socio-political context

4. Textual analysis

5. An assessment of Futurist propaganda with regard to Fascism

Abbreviations:

War with words

1. Preliminary remarks

2. Some linguistic considerations

3. Propaganda and censorship (1914-1933)

4. Glimpses on the present-day situation

5. Conclusion

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2

APPENDIX 3

Part II. Language of politics/or politicians

Some remarks on linguistic strategies of persuasion

1. RHETORICAL USE OF LANGUAGE

2. ARGUMENTATION

3. PERSUASIVE GRAMMAR

4. THE LEXICON OF PERSUASION.

5. REMARKABLE UNMARKEDNESS: simulation of equality of minds by imitation of linguistic variants of intimacy: the persuasive power of mame lošn (see Sornig 1985)

Credibility and political language

1. Faith in politicians

2. Grice's intentions' and the problem of overtness

3. Two ways of 'non-communicating'

4. Conditions for the use of political language

1968: The power of political jargon - a "Club-2" discussion

1. Political jargon - myth - ideology - text

2. The institution "Club-2" and its significance

3. The "Club-2" of June 13th, 1978

4. Rudi Dutschke: "A socialist tries to find his role in society

5. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the "active fighter: never say die"!

6. Summary

Phonological variation in parliamentary discussions

2. Analysis of sociophonological variation

3. Political speech in parliament

4. Conclusion

APPENDICES

Social prejudice as a resource of power: towards the functional ambivalence of stereotypes

0. Introduction

1. Problems of definition

2. Functions of prejudice

3. The functional ambivalence of stereotypes between necessary and dangerous functions

4. A possible explanation

Part III. Institutions, control and discourse in specific settings

Mediating racism The role of the media in the reproduction of racism

2. Discourse and the reproduction of racism

3. Ethnic minorities and the news media

4. Properties of news about ethnic minority groups

5. Contexts and conclusions

NOTE

Manipulation strategies in newspapers: a program for critical linguistics

2. "Critical linguistics": an extended model

3.Theimportanceof the "Neue Kronenzeitung" in Austria.

4. Trivial myths as means of ideologizing

5. An example of miscarried ideologizing

APPENDIX 1: Translated text

The case of W. A critical journey to the border between psychiatry and justice

1. Preamble and purpose

2. Methodic premises

3. Where does a story begin?

4. Montage as a method of critical discourse analysis

6. The close-up: four approaches to interpretation

7. Postscripts

Revising the patriarchal paradigm Language change and feminist language politics

1. MAN in partriarchal languages

2. Changing the sexist status quo: conflicts and compromises

3. Conclusion

REFERENCES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

1-55619-037-9

1-283-04723-3

9786613047236

90-272-8605-1

OCLC:

709606195